Étiquette : Sahel Region

2019/03/06 – Jihadist attacks in the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have disrupted schooling for more than 400,000 young people, the United Nations’ children’s agency Unicef said Thursday.

Nearly 2,000 schools have had to close, a doubling since 2017, it said in a statement.

2019/06/02 – BP expects its planned Greater Tortue Ahmeyim LNG project offshore Mauritania and Senegal to become increasingly cost-competitive as it moves into later expansion phases, a senior company executive said Tuesday.

2019/06/02 – The Leaders of 5 African Sahel states G5 which includes Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad have called on the UN, the European Union and the African Union to support national reconciliation efforts underway in Libya to achieve peace and stability and to conduct elections in the country. The 5 states called in a final communiqué, issued at the end of the 5th meeting the African Sahel Conference held here for preventing the Libyan crisis from spreading regionally and internationally.